With support from the California Arts Council, Meztli Projects will provide IndigenARTS & Wellness a project blending Indigenous practices with mental health and wellness support, using Traditional Arts (drumming, etc.) and Printmaking as art forms to generate dialogue around intergenerational trauma & resiliency, sexual & gendered violence, systemic violence, art as medicine & a healing tool, to process, reflect and work towards individual & collective wellness, especially as folks deal with issues that arose during the pandemic such mourning and grieving deaths, and isolation, among other issues still impacting our Native and Indigenous community members.
Meztli Projects provides culturally relevant and competent arts programming to Native/Indigenous populations as well as the general public. Workshops range from printmaking such as screen printing and lino block printing to beading, drum making, mural painting, and zine making.
Youth Development: Meztli Projects’ (Ready 2 Rise Project) is a unique set of interlocking programs between youth, artists and cultural workers from East Los Angeles who have been impacted by street violence and incarceration, developed to specifically center impacted youth by building a framework for participation, decision-making, apprenticeship, and entrepreneurship. The suite of programs include a Cultural Worker Apprenticeship program, a Youth Arts & Action Workshop Series and a 10-month program focusing on Arts-Based Healing Practices. Each program folds into the next creating a pathway for employment and wellness through art making, opportunities to assist program facilitators, and mentorship.

